M 6.3 in Vanuatu on 19 May 2019 01:23 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1179887
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 20 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.6713 , 169.8042
Event Date: 19 May 2019 01:23 UTC
19 May 2019 12:23 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 May 2019 01:26 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us70003n4z Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 135 | About casualties: 21 | Last hour: 0

Pacific regionTue, 21 May 2019 05:09:00 +0200.

Natural disasters ranging from cyclones to floods, droughts and earthquakes frequently occur in the Pacific region. The pacific island countries (including Papua New Guinea, Fiji Islands, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands and Vanuatu) rank amon
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Mystery solved: Cause of 'loud rumble' uncoveredFri, 17 May 2019 04:56:00 +0200.

MetService has confirmed there was a lightning strike off the coast of Otago last night, which is the likely cause of the loud rumbling noise heard by many. MetService communications meteorologist Lisa Murray said there was a single lightni
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Two damaging tremors highlight the Philippines coast-to-coast earthqua ... Thu, 16 May 2019 21:52:00 +0200.

By Chris Rollins, Ph.D., Michigan State University, and Ross S. Stein, Ph.D., Temblor, Inc. Two deadly and damaging quakes late last month were probably unrelated to each other. Citation: Rollins, C., Stein, R.S., (2019), Two damaging tremo
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Earthquake shakes El Salvador, NicaraguaThu, 16 May 2019 21:08:00 +0200.

Authorities in the Central American nation of El Salvador have reported a 6.2-magnitude earthquake, according to the nation's Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Trend reported citing Sputnik. The earthquake had its epicentre off
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (91), (5), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),